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Regular stamps or tracking on envelope to US
On a $15 thin paper item to US from Canada in cardboard flat envelope 6 x 8 ...would you frequent sellers use tracking and mail item as a small packet or just take your chances and use regular mail stamps with no tracking. I have already collected $15 for postage so regular stamps would be frowned upon by buyer. What would you do?
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kh-phdan
·2 years agoHello Everyone,
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Thanks for your understanding!
pjcdn2005
·5 years agoI wouldn't normally use tracking on a $15 item but the time to decide how you will be sending an item is when you set up the listing so that the buyer knows what to expect. Your listing says that you are using expedited shipping with a delivery time of 2-5 business days so that is definitely not lettermail. Unless the buyer is fairly close to you and usps is very quick, Xpresspost is the only service that 'might' meet that timeline and that would be crazy expensive.
You didn't say what the package will weigh but I would probably use tracked packet so at least the buyer would see that the item was on its way and where it was. You mentioned small packet but that doesn't really have tracking although it may show a scan or two on eBay IF USPS does decide to scan it.
You might want to contact the buyer and ask if a longer delivery would be ok, explaining that you made a mistake when you put in the service. You could even offer a partial refund. To be honest I'm not sure exactly what I would to but I do know that it isn't a good idea to promise something that you can't deliver such as a super quick delivery time.
millana-dee
·2 years agoI do not agree with this at all. I will be charging what I paid for to have the item sent for me. I'm so tired of these people who think you owe them a dollar refund for postage overages. A lot goes into shipping, the cost of the time it takes you to get to the post office, the packing or handling time, the cost of the supply you use to mail it, and lastly the cost you incurred when purchasing the item. I'm in Canada, and nothing from the US comes to me for under 20 dollars. So you can be guaranteed that I will make my money back when selling it back to the US!
mrdutch1001
·2 years agoYou have responded to a thread from 2021 to which your comment has little relevancy anymore...sometimes it is just best to bypass these old threads and leave them in the past rather than trying to reignite interest in a thread that has been succeeded by newer, more recent threads of same, similar topic.
mrdutch1001
·2 years ago@ @kh-phdan
ZOMBIE THREAD FROM 2021!